When an unmistakable embarrassment to liberalism occurs, a standard establishment press fallback tactic is to accuse conservatives of some form of incivility — and if there really isn’t one, to make up a story about it anyway.

That’s exactly what Bloomberg Businsessweek’s Paul M. Barrett did on Tuesday in covering the NRA’s reaction to the arrest of California State Senator and ardent gun control advocate Leland Yee on gun trafficking charges. The story’s headline claimed that the group did “a victory dance.” Barrett’s content claimed that it was “gloating” and “strained to veil its pleasure.” In truth, the group was doing nothing of the sort — unless the speech police now believe that making any kind of obvious observation about a liberal’s failure is inherently unfair:

Bloomberg is vague — “A report from ADP Research Institute at 8:15 a.m. New York time will probably show that U.S. companies added more workers last month than in February.” February’s adds were 139,000.

I also came across a prediction at Reuters that Friday’s jobs report will come in with 200,000 seasonally adjusted job additions. Additionally, Business Insider reports that “optimism is building that the number could come in significantly higher.”

Separately, the press is treating a 5.7 percent pickup in year-over-year auto sales after three basically flat months as some kind of wondrous snapback from bad weather. It did beat amazingly depressed expectations of a 2 percent rise.

The ADP report will be here at 8:15. I’ll sit in on the conference call after that.

“The 191,000 U.S. private sector jobs added in March is slightly above the twelve-month average. Hopefully, this could be a sign there is more growth to come.”
– Carlos Rodriguez, president and chief executive officer of ADP

… Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, said, “The job market is coming out from its deep winter slumber. Job gains are consistent with the pace prior to the brutal winter. The gains are broad based across industries and business size classes. Even better numbers are likely in coming months as the weather warms.”

I’m interpreting Zandi to say that March came back to where things had been but that there was no make-up effect from the winter.

Prior month adjustments:
- February — from 135K to 178K.
- January — from 127K to 121K.
- December — unchanged.

CALL NOTES:

Mark Zandi:

Slowdown in the job market and the economy was due to weather. Now with more typical weather, numbers will return to growth rates we have been experiencing before.

Suggestive of economic growth close to 3% GDP growth (presumably for year).

Key to even better job growth is more hiring. Layoffs are low. Job vacancies aren’t that much lower than they were before the recession. Some lack of confidence and job skills mismatch.

Job gains are broad based across pay scales and company sizes. Not stellar but consistent.

Even though unemp rate is now elevated, we’re getting to the point where wage growth is now showing some early signs of picking up, meaning that in some parts of the country the labor market is tightening.

Questions:

- FROM ME re GDP and Feb. improvement to March — GDP 3% prediction is for whole year. First quarter will be about 1.5%. All things together suggest that weather effects were pronounced. Subsequent quarters will be above 3% to make up for lower first quarter.

- From Richard (couldn’t tell last name) re BLS Friday and jobless rate — Zandi predicts 185K with a few govt. layoffs. Hope for 225K+ in subsequent months. Unemp rate might tick down to 6.6%. At current rate of job growth, even if workforce participation stabilizes, it will slow the progress of unemp rate decline but not stop it. 2015 at 5.7%, 2016 at 5.5%, which he called full employment (you’re kidding — Ed.).

- Gabrielle re lag in small biz job growth and zero adds in 20-49 employees — Zandi says key to small biz recovery is housing industry. Should see more improvement in housing market, auguring well for small biz growth. Job creation at new businesses remains very, very low by historical standards. Job growth at fast-growing startups isn’t happening, which foreshadows employment growth problems in the coming years.

Today, we are reminded that anyone can change their mind at the last moment before an abortion. And if we face any discomfort in going out to pray outside the abortion center, it’s worth it to give a mom or a dad a chance to choose life.

When they do, we are sometimes surprised. But we must trust that the voice of God will be heard and responded to in that moment. …

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO

It wasn’t hard to see the excitement in Michele’s note from Colorado Springs: “Another baby saved!!!!” Yes, four exclamations! But that’s always great to hear.

“I have some more amazing news,” she added. “I learned that another baby was saved last Friday. So there were two on the same day!”

All of this is happening at a place where the weather has often been, as Michele put it, “yucky.”

When a group from Immaculate Conception Church was praying outside the abortion center, a couple pulled over near the stop sign and talked to a vigil participant for quite a while.

The conversation went on for a bit, and the couple said they were going in to have an abortion. “The volunteer gave them some information and told them the truth about their baby,” Michele said. The young man then turned to the woman and said, “We can’t do this” – and they left!

Michele noted that the sight of sincere, determined, steadfast Christians standing in prayer in uncomfortable weather often makes abortion-minded women stop and think – and choose life for their babies.

Go to Life News for the full column, which includes another story from Campbell River, British Columbia.

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